Kategorie: Talks (Video)

Aufgezeichnete Referate | Recorded Talks

Mikael Opstrup

A specialist in international project development, trailer consultancy, co-productions, workshop planning & tutoring. Scriptwriting at the Danish Film School (1988), worked for more than 50 documentary organisations & events all over the world. Head of Studies at European Documentary Network, EDN (2011-19). Worked for IDFA (Netherlands), Hot Docs (Canada), Nordisk Panorama (Denmark/Sweden), Institute of Documentary Film (Czech Republic), Baltic Sea Docs (Latvia), Docs Barcelona (Spain), In Docs (Indonesia), Dox Box (Syria) a.o. Producer and co-owner of Final Cut Productions in Copenhagen, Denmark (2002-09). He served as a Documentary Producer at The Danish Film Institute (1998-2002). Author of the book’ The Uncertainty – A book about developing Character driven documentary’ (2021).

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ZDOK.25 contribution:
> What Are We Looking For?

Lisa Gerig

Lisa Gerig, 1990, studierte in Zürich und Genf Film mit der Vertiefung Montage. Ihr Abschlussfilm ZAUNGESPRÄCHE erzählt auf radikal subjektive Weise über die Situation der Gefangenen im Zürcher Ausschaffungsgefängnis und gewann mehrere Preise. 2018-2023 Diplomstudium in Dokumentarfilmregie an der Kunsthochschule für Medien in Köln, wo sie 2019 den Förderpreis für Junge Studierende gewann. Heute arbeitet sie als freischaffende Filmemacherin in Zürich und Köln. Die Anhörung ist ihr erster langer Dokumentarfilm, der 2023 den Prix Soleure, 2024 den Zürcher Filmpreis und den Schweizer Filmpreis als Bester Dokumentarfilm gewann.

Filmografie:
2023 DIE ANHÖRUNG, 89min, doc
2019 À DEUX, 28min, doc, Förderpreis Young Students
2015 ZAUNGESPRÄCHE, 13min, doc, Best Documentary Filmschoolfest Munich, camera prize Nonfiktionale Bad Aibling, Prize Alexis Victor Thalberg Foundation

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ZDOK.25-Beiträge:
> Mein Gegenüber – Rollenwechsel im Dokumentarfilm
Film:
> DIE ANHÖRUNG (2023)

Processing Together

A collective glimpse at the documentary ecosystem

by Serra Ciliv

What does emotional, relational and ethical support for documentary filmmakers look like?  What does advocating for better mental health in the documentary industry involve?

As a collective of therapeutic practitioners, Film in Mind has been working with filmmakers on the complex issues they navigate while making their films. Their work involves co-facilitating the filmmakers’ process in the face of trauma, challenging social realities and psychological complexity. In many sessions, safety and protection for the filmmakers themselves, their contributors, teams and audiences are among the primary concerns.

Serra Ciliv will begin by talking briefly about some of the main questions her work with filmmakers has left her with. She will then invite volunteers from the audience for a group process around a case: to feel, express, and listen to the different roles, ghosts, edges, relational patterns, belief systems, and structural dynamics in the field.

This is an invitation to engage not only intellectually, but also to collectively tap into the dreaming of what – in a given moment in time- happens in the ecosystem of the documentary process and how all parts within it interact with each other. 

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CV:
> Serra Ciliv

Serra Ciliv

Serra Ciliv’s studies and work experience in psychotherapy, politics, arts & culture, and history have focused on forms of belonging and opposition; individual, intergenerational and collective trauma; feminism and ecology; experiences of displacement, and forms of care, solidarity and resilience. Her work as a therapist and facilitator aims to help foster awareness and courageous communication in our very own personal ecosystems, teams, and industries.

In her former life in Istanbul, Serra co-founded and acted for 18 years as director of !f Istanbul Film Festival, an interdisciplinary arts event, a community of support for alternative filmmakers, and a platform for free expression and diversity in Turkey. Serra is also a co-founder of Turkey’s first independent film fund for documentaries, the New Film Fund.

Alongside her private practice, since 2023, she is delighted to have joined forces with Film in Mind, a collective of therapeutic practitioners who provide consultation and therapy for the documentary filmmaking community.

Film in Mind website: www.filminmind.co.uk

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ZDOK.25 contribution:
> Processing together: A collective glimpse at the documentary ecosystem 

Building Collaborative Relationships and Participatory Re/enactments

by Rand Beiruty

In this talk, I reflect on the participatory methods that shaped Tell Them About Us and how they intersect with the ethical and social responsibilities of documentary filmmaking. Through my lens as both a filmmaker and researcher, I explore questions driving my practice: Who has the right to tell certain stories, and how does a filmmaker’s positionality and ethical responsibility influence their relationship with participants and the choice of film form? By acknowledging my positionality and fostering collaborative relationships with participants, I strive to create narratives that challenge dominant representations and amplify marginalized voices. I argue that participatory filmmaking, when approached with transparency and reflexivity, allows for more nuanced and equitable forms of storytelling, positioning participants not only as subjects but as partners in telling the story.

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Filme:
> TELL THEM ABOUT US (2024)
> SHADOWS (2024)
CV:
> Rand Beiruty